Improvement in wash-boilers



PATENT lDiarrea CHARLES N. TYLER, NEW-YORK, N. Y.

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l Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 811.918, dated December 1E, 1868.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES N. TYLER, of New York, in the county ofnNew York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wash-Boilers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In washing clothes the great object is to force the water rapidly through the fabric, and thus carry off the foreign matter.

My invention consists chieiiy in so arranging a concave plate, which forms the boiling and steam space below the clothes, asto secure a true force and suction current, and thus rapidly carry' all the steam and water up through a tube to the top ofthe boiler, and'tllen downward through the entire amount of clothes.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is -a vertical section of a boiler with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the steam and boiling space, showing the mode of fastening the central tube; 'Fig'. 3, a view of the force and suction apparatus removed from the boiler. Fig. 4 is a bottom view of the same.

In the bottom of the boiler is fitted the boiling and steam apparatus shown in Fig. 3. The chief feature of this-apparatus is a close-arched plate, B, curved down at the ends and sol!l dcred to a band, B', which fits the sides of the boiler at the bottom. Openings Gr, Fig. 4, are

'left between the close-arched plate and the band B'. At the center of this arched plate is a steam and water space, B", from which the tube C rises to the top of the boiler.

rated part of the band, so as to secure a current of water through every part of the clothing, as will be hereinafter more fully explained.

All the steam formed in the boiler is directed into the steam and water space B. Whenever the steam generated is sufficient for rapid boiling the steam and water rise through the tube C, and arel i'orced out in jets from the rat.

dial tubes E upon the clothes. By this action of the steam avacuum is'forrned at the bottom of the boiler, and the consequent -suction draws the water suddenly through the clothes and thev perforated plate D, and then along the space between' the two plates B and D, and through the openings G', to the bottom of the boiler. Thus a complete force and suction current is set in rapid motion in the direction of the arrows, Fig. l. The descending water, being always coolen' will prevent any generation ofsteam directly below the openings Gr. These rapid currents, rushing through the fabric, soon wash away all the dirt without any of the violence or weer which attend bot-h machine and hand washing.v t.

' The apparatus seen in Fig. 3 may be fitted to any old boiler. In packing the same for transportation it is convenient to have the tube C separate from the arched plates. Therefore I make this tube smaller at the lower end to tit a socket or short tube, b, which is also contracted at the end'. After the tube Gis pressed home the lip of tube bis hammered out, enlarging the diameter of this tube until the same closely ts the tube G, and thus forms a close joint. This tube may be made long enough for the larger boilers, and then cut-oi` to suit before being fastened in place. The band B' is also made wide enough to allow the same to be spread out at the bottom, as seen in Fig. 3, to fit any boiler. The radial tubes E are set in such manner as to direct the jets 4high er toward the ends ofthe boiler, and lower toward the sides, in order to act upon the whole surface of the boiler and the clothes.

. In charging the boiler theapparatus Fig.

3 is put in place and the water raised to the special devices may be varied without departing from my invention. Also, the openings G may be made smaller or larger, or other openings may be made near the sides ofthe boiler, so long as the downward current of water will preventthe steam from rising through such openings. In a round boiler the openings G should be made narrower and extended more or less around the boiler, so as to accomplish the purposes desired. y

I do not broadly claim discharging water at various angles on the same line or side and uniform on all sides of the supply-tube, as in sprayingcups, or the use of a del'lecting-platev under a perforated false bottom, when the upward current rises from the ends of such plate, while openings are left at the side of said plate the whole length, or nrarl;T the whole length, of the boiler.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by a patent of' the United States, is as follows: l

The close concave plate B, provided with the band B and openings G at the ends, and

capped tube C, substantially in the manne and for the purposes set forth.' e CHARLESN. TYLER. Witnesses:

J. H. LANE, DANIEL BREED. 

